LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Cabin Cruiser
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coast- guard saw a cabin-cruiser drifting towards the rocks about two miles south of Berwick. At 5.10 the life- boat...
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
Hazardous Passage
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To EDWIN W. DISTIN, on his retirement, after serving for 29| years as coxswain of the Salcombe life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
The late GEORGE S. KELLY, who for 15 years was coxswain and 6...
Category: Awards
Relief Fleet- D Class Jill Gatti and Y Boat
Jill Gatti (centre) founder of the bridge Charity Challenge Cup with Christine Duckworth of Better Bridge in Britain (right) and Vanessa Lowe, marketing executive of Sunsail, at the joint handing over and dedication... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Old Bob Leach
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1952, the life-boat honorary secretary saw a fishing boat about five miles to the south-east burn flares. At 4.36 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched in a slight sea with a...
The Lame Lifeboat Crew With Royal Navy Sea King Helicopter Hms Gannet,
The Lame lifeboat crew with Royal Navy Sea King helicopter HMS Gannet, based at RNAS Prestwick, Scotland. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cape Nelson
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 2.45 p.m. on loth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Cape Nelson, which was expected off the Tyne at five o'clock, wished to land a sick seaman. As soon as the...
Marianne and Atalanta
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.15 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that one boat had capsized and another was in difficulties off Peace- haven. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.30 in a light south-easterly...
Thats My Girl
Pictured above is Coxswain Malcolm Gray of St Davids lifeboat with his youngest crew member/daughter, Gillian, following the rescue of a fishing vessel last May.
There are a number of crews who consist of more than one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs